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Apple Releases iOS 5.0.1 to Address Battery Life Issues

Apple has just release iOS 5.0.1 to the public, bringing fixes for battery life issues introduced with iOS 5. The release also brings several other enhancements including multitasking gestures for the original iPad.

This update contains improvements and other bug fixes including:

- Fixes bugs affecting battery life

- Adds Multitasking Gestures for original iPad

- Resolves bugs with Documents in the Cloud

- Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation

The build number on the public release is 90A405, an increment of one build over the beta 2 build seeded to developers last Friday.

Source: Mac Rumors

[.Neo]

"Your software is up to date"

Hmmm...

[Rudy]

Me and my fiancee both got new 4s and mine lasts 2 days with heavy gaming while hers would barely last a day and she doesn't play games. I hope this fixes her problems

[Pygmy_Hippo]

No update here either sadly. I really hope they've fixed the issue of Safari crashing so often, never had any problems before IOS5 and now it will happen 10+ times a day - makes my old Windows ME box look rock solid in comparison :D

[Shadrack]

"Your software is up to date"

Damn it, I want my OTA update :p

[RadishTM Veteran]

"Your software is up to date"

Damn it, I want my OTA update :p

Same :geek: :laugh:

[Pharos]

Mine isn't showing up either, but I'm sure it will be available shortly. Thanks for the heads up!

Btw, the battery on my 4S was awful until I deleted my iCloud account. That mainly fixed the battery issues, but it's still way worse than the iPhone 4 I owned... Let's see if that really helps!

[spedanden]

Restart your phone, showed up for me after that

[.Neo]

Restart your phone, showed up for me after that

No need, it just took a little bit of time that's all. iPad being updated as we speak.

[Glassed Silver]

Still waiting for my untethered jailbreak... Waiting for 5.0.1 untethered then :p

Glassed Silver:mac

[RadishTM Veteran]

Relatively painless and I'm impressed, 44MB over WIFI and took about 5 minutes on my iPhone (Y)

[.Neo]

Relatively painless and I'm impressed, 44MB over WIFI and took about 5 minutes on my iPhone (Y)

Relatively?

[Jamushroom Veteran]

Pretty smooth update here on my end as well. Tabbed the "Download and Install" button, plugged it into a power source just to be sure and off it went. Loving OTA for sure :D

[Roger H. Veteran]

Updating my coworkers phone now - hope it doesn't die so she wont kill me. LOL

[Barney T. Administrators]

Worked well for me. No glitches at all... I updated 2 iPads and 1 iPhone. Yay! :woot:

[alexalex]

Worked well for my iPhone 4.

[DocM]

16G 3GS here.

iOS 5.0 took forever, but WiFi upgrade to 5.0.1 took just a few minutes and went smoothly. Lovin' that part.

Still haven't had enough use to judge battery life.

Safari crashes way too often since the 5.0 update, and still does. Restarting it is easy, but still an annoying pain.

I'd also like to see a setting where you can adjust Safari's buffer size - having post edits disappear if you switch between tabs to copy something is also a pain, and so is having to use a text editor app to prevent it.

[Jason Smally]

Hm.. My iphone 4 run out of battery really fast... I bought potable external battery and It works great so far.

http://www.accessorygeeks.com/scosche-flipcharge-burst-iphone-ipod-emergency-backup-battery-charger-ibat500-blk.html

I like this external battery's performance but a little bigger than what I expected.

Anyways, work great for emergency!